CSE-- Pg. 74 SATAN'S HAMMER, Ch.18, pg.160 "Goodnight Sweetheart" epilogue

[smidgy]

yeah, you're 47.. and I'm 35.....

 

[orangecats2]

Really, Neebs you are getting too informative. I had been wondering if they had towels at the pool or not. You let that little nugget slip!

Great pic of the pool, too bad those three people are in it!

 

[fsmith2845]

Wow.. happened to stumble across this trippie and who but all people would be authoring it? Nebo himself.. Glad to see you back. Also, happy to see you made it through day one of your trip in one piece (even though you woke "she who mustn't be disturbed".

We did our trip the week before Christmas this last time. We actually flew home on Christmas Day (it was really cool for us to be swimming in the pool outdoors on Christmas Eve). Had a great time, but the crowds were pretty bad (as everyone warned).. they built up everyday, which is why we chose to hang out by the pool on Christmas Eve.. I will say that the weather was much nicer than our last trip in December.. you remember that one, right? When some jokester moved Florida from the Southeast US to somewhere north of Santa's workshop!!!

Anyway, look forward to reading on through your trip.. one of these days i need to do the same from our trips.

 

[buzz1121]

Great day in the morning Nebo!

I am finally caught up with your TR. I had to catch up on Pkondz's TR as well. I ended up splitting them up over a two night period. Thank goodness the kids are at vacation bible school during the evenings this week!

Your chapters have been hilarious as usual. I really enjoyed the "trailer trash" humor in the first chapter and it made me think of this crazy show that DS happened to watch a few times on Animal Planet while we were at WDW, called "Call of the Wildman". I hope I don't offend anyone, but seriously Nebo, check that little gem out. It won't take you but a few minutes and you will understand why your comments made me think of it.

Score on the room once again!!! Way to go Smidgy!!

Nebo, I think your room video/voice over is awesome! It's so great to hear the voice of Nebo!

I hate that Smidgy was sick on the trip. A ton a people were sneezing and coughing while we were there so I think the crude is still having its heyday.

I really need to read "The Hunger Games"! It's going in the book queue for sure. I read four books during the trip so I need to restock for the next trip.

It's great that some of the faithful from past TRs are in this TR. I'm not sure there can ever be enough characters in a Nebo TR. You have picked up some really cool, interesting people over the years, you know, and the Neboites keep growing.Growing legions of Neboites......that just might be a scary thought!

How was your appointment with the eye doctor? I was doing my best to send good thoughts your way.

 

[buzz1121]

Oh yeah, I meant to tell you last night that DD is now over 40 inches and she was so excited to be able to ride almost everything. She loved Soarin, BTMRR, Star Tours(yeah, I know) and I believe she would have been a TT junkie had it been open.

Speaking of TT, its void has created a very full house on "The Land" side of Future World. We were able to ride Soarin twice the two mornings we were there by being at the park 30 minutes early, but there were long waits for many of the other lesser rides. I am looking forward to the new, enhanced TT being up and running!

We are revising the August trip a little to arrive on 7/31/12, still in plenty of time to meet you in your company socks and Smidgy, but we are going to try to work my parents into agreeing to come with us to the World in early February so we are shaving a few days off the beginning of the trip.

My parents haven't been since I was twelve so it will have been a long WDW drought for them. If they could see the joy the kids have and what little pros they are in the World, I think we could hook them. February tends to be a good "farming light" month, one of only 2-3 light months so now I just need to sic the kids on them. Wish me luck!! I'll keep you guys posted!

 

[margymas]

So, does sustainable mean they feed themselves,, pay for their own coral lodging and at a certain age all turn themselves in be filleted and deep fried?

No. It simply means they will not move back in with Mom and Dad after college.





The Hobbling Dead woke up before the Coughing Dead, and I had tried to lay out my stuffage the night before.

Is stuffage like stuffing without the celery? I hate celery.

. Can't wait for next chapter

 

[buzz1121]

So yeah, the trick is you and Pkondz will pretty much need to keep up with each other's TRs to fully appreciate my Disney "Nebo and Pkondz" moments. I'm doing my best to divide my attention between the two TRs, and you guys have some noticeable similarities in style and sense of humor, but there are differences as well, so I try to make sure I keep my comments unique on both TRs.

Nebo, of course I thought of you at Ohana, how could I possibly not laugh and smile a little at the memory of your Ohana experience?

I thought of you when we finally walked into an ADR at Tony's.

I thought of you when we walked through the dimly lit "Nebo trap" that is POTC.

But most of all, I thought of you when the story below happened during an Epcot EMH. Interestingly enough, DH missed the "show", but when I told him about it, after we could stop laughing he said....."You have got to tell Nebo about it!"

So DD decided this trip that she absolutely loved IASMW and Maelstrom. We rode both of them numerous times. We happened to be in line for Maelstrom on EMH night behind a newly married couple. You know the ones, flush with the promise of new love and uniqueness, wearing the obligatory groom and bridal ears. Ah.... young love!

The line was about a ten minute wait but it was an evening "must do" for DD. I need to interject here that the groom was what you would call the quintessential geek so to speak. The young bride was just your average young woman. As they waited, she casually reached over and stroked his arm. He, great study of women that he was, proceeded to "gettchie goo" her in her stomach.

Nebo, I know that you know this, but I will go ahead and type this out. There is not a woman on the planet, other than the Philsbury Dough Girl, who wants to be "gettchie gooed" in her stomach! Seriously, the young bride had a small "pooch", what I call the portion of a woman's stomach area that "pooches" out. No woman wants the "pooch" acknowledged in any form or fashion, but most especially not with a "gettchie goo".

Oh, but the miscue didn't stop there, oh no! The bride tried two other times to stroke his arm to elicit an appropriate "newlywed" behavior like holding her hand or putting his arm around her, but Mr. No Clue never received the message and proceeded to "gettchie goo" her stomach twice more.

Man, ole Buzz here was about to die. Seriously, I wanted to help the guy out, I felt sorry for him, but it was way too hilarious. We were close to the boat, thank goodness, where I collapsed into laughter.

I kept thinking what would happen to the groom when he kept doing that over the next few weeks. Her newlywed tolerance for his geekiness won't last long and the thought of the inevitable "instruction" makes me laugh out loud.

People in general are so entertaining but I knew that you would appreciate the humor and utter misguided notions of the hapless groom!

 

[mmeb144]

So DD decided this trip that she absolutely loved IASMW and Maelstrom. We rode both of them numerous times. We happened to be in line for Maelstrom on EMH night behind a newly married couple. You know the ones, flush with the promise of new love and uniqueness, wearing the obligatory groom and bridal ears. Ah.... young love!

The line was about a ten minute wait but it was an evening "must do" for DD. I need to interject here that the groom was what you would call the quintessential geek so to speak. The young bride was just your average young woman. As they waited, she casually reached over and stroked his arm. He, great study of women that he was, proceeded to "gettchie goo" her in her stomach.

Nebo, I know that you know this, but I will go ahead and type this out. There is not a woman on the planet, other than the Philsbury Dough Girl, who wants to be "gettchie gooed" in her stomach! Seriously, the young bride had a small "pooch", what I call the portion of a woman's stomach area that "pooches" out. No woman wants the "pooch" acknowledged in any form or fashion, but most especially not with a "gettchie goo".

Oh, but the miscue didn't stop there, oh no! The bride tried two other times to stroke his arm to elicit an appropriate "newlywed" behavior like holding her hand or putting his arm around her, but Mr. No Clue never received the message and proceeded to "gettchie goo" her stomach twice more.

Man, ole Buzz here was about to die. Seriously, I wanted to help the guy out, I felt sorry for him, but it was way too hilarious. We were close to the boat, thank goodness, where I collapsed into laughter.

I kept thinking what would happen to the groom when he kept doing that over the next few weeks. Her newlywed tolerance for his geekiness won't last long and the thought of the inevitable "instruction" makes me laugh out loud.

People in general are so entertaining but I knew that you would appreciate the humor and utter misguided notions of the hapless groom!

Gitchee Gitchee Goo means that I love you! ala Phineas and Ferb?

 

[Backstage_Gal]

[QUOTE Buzz]No woman wants the "pooch" acknowledged in any form or fashion, but most especially not with a "gettchie goo".

[/QUOTE]

I dont remember this from Nebo reports, but then again, I do suffer from whatever that thing is that makes you forget things sometimes.
(honestly, I can't remember the term right now ) But I totally agree with this sentiment.

Great to have you back, Buzz, and happy you had a good trip, save for the cold. And woohoo for the upgrade!

 

[monymony3471]

Gitchee Gitchee Goo means that I love you! ala Phineas and Ferb?

Do you know it took 8 months to get that song out of my head!

Great!

 

[pkondz]

By the way,,, am I the only one who has had a problem with the word, "sustainable"?

Yes. It's only you.

I think I might have even mentioned to Smidgy that when I go out to dinner,,, I'd like to think I'm paying for more than just something to sustain me until I eat breakfast".
And she never corrected me.

Well... no. Of course not. Where's the fun in that?

Really, wouldn't you just love to remove the bindings from all the lobsters in the tanks at Red Lobster?
And see about 30 of them sneak into the dining room, both barrels armed and ready,,, Pinchers locked and loaded!
"Now, where are those achilles tendons I keep hearing about?"

Yes! And they get organized into regiments and platoons. With little helmets on their heads.

Back on the sutsainable part:
Admit it, you don't know either!
Although,, we do have a sustainable coffee table,,,
no matter what you put on it,,, or spill on it,,, you won't get it out!

There! Now you've got it. It's a word that comes from the deep south. Some fish oils are more difficult to get out when doing laundry. You've got to watch that you don't get it on your clothing, when eating.

So, uh... I, uh... was wonderin'... uh... Is thiS uh Stainable fish?

Simple, really.

Sunday evening of our arrival day, we both got to take parts in a classic war movie, The Longest Night, She got the John Wayne role and I ended up with the Red Buttons role, hanging from a church steeple by my parachute while the Krauts practice their target shooting at me.

You're thinking of "The Longest Day". Great movie. They still have the paratrooper up on the church...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16833954@N00/212017062

Whenever I got close to falling asleep, she would fire off a few rounds of "snorts" that would wake me back up again

Probably retaliatory snorts to interrupt your snoring.
(I'm on your side Smidgy.)

We both should have slept like rocks after not sleeping the night before, but with my back really seizsing back up

Let's back up. Doesn't it get your back up when your back seizes back up when you back up to a sewer back up?

I also now had one more problem keeping me awake;
no disrespect intended, but I'm now sharing a room with Peter Pottamus, who would occasionally let loose with a "Hippo Holler"!

I'm tellin' ya... it's in self defence.

Yes,, the very same Tyranosaurus Rex that was in Jurasick Park

And nobody caught that?

as he decided a guy sitting on the pot with a Bathroom Reader in his hands,, was a good midnight snack.

Aren't you glad you weren't around during the Cretacious (no, not Jurass is sick) period? Oh, wait... how old are you... really?

white noise she called it.

I called it "noise noise".

"zzzzzhhzzzzzzzzdddzzzzzzzszzszsszszszs bz ORLANDO fzzzbzbzbzbbzzazbbzzsssszs"

Every once iin a while, it would lock just enough on the nearest station for it to blurt out one word,,,which would scare the crap out of me, before it returned to it's "white noise" status.

Now that's funny! I can just see that happening too. Did you get to the point where you were just lying there, waiting for the next word to come out?

Anyway,,, believe you me,,,, believe me you?

Me no believe you.

With me moanin' and a groanin',, and her blortin' and a snortin',,,it sounded like TB ward's 20th reunion!

And everybody had a great time! Oh sure, everybody had changed. Some had put on weight, or lost some hair... but you could always identify someone from the distinctive wheezing they'd make.

Or, a behind the stage scene from a Jerry Springer show.

Ya know... there's so much going on on stage, that I wonder if it's not fairly quiet backstage.

Monday Morning, April 30

Geez! You're only getting to the morning now?? You're getting as long winded...

as long winded as...

me.

The Hobbling Dead woke up before the Coughing Dead,

And you were Grateful then, no?

and I had tried to lay out my stuffage the night before.

mmmm. I love stuffage. I'll eat that before eating the turkey any day.

all I had to do was punch the buttons to start it.

Why does everyone say, "Punch the button." Seems kind of violent, doesn't it? Shouldn't we try to be a more caring, gentle society? Oh, wait. That's the Swiss. Maybe there, they "caress and gently coax the buttons into a zen state of activation" and never, never, never "depress the buttons".

See? I didn't lie.

You stood? Back too sore to lie?

so now I'm just running my hands all over the damn thing,, pressing, prodding, kneading.

You proddingly knead to press the right button, or it won't work.

Finally,,, a light came on!

Over your head? And that helped you find the right button.

Check.

Within 3 minutes,, all my attempts at quiet went overboard, when this little coffe maker tried to imitate the audio part of the giant volcano, "Krakatoa" exploding in Malaysia.

I knew about Krakatoa... but couldn't remember if it was in Malaysia, so I googled it (it is). But what I found interesting is that it was 13,000 times more powerful than Little Boy and four times more powerful than the biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated. I knew it was bigger than Hiroshima... just not how much bigger.

I didn't know whether to put cream and sugar in my cup,, or evacuate the resort.

I chose to evacuate,,, heh,,, as they say in hospitaleze.

awww... I was going to go there.

'cause when you gotta go, ya gotta go.

ONce you got these babies moving,,, they wanted to KEEP moving. But I'm not quite sure how they were able to Bam,,, they stopped short from completeing the closed circuit by about an eighth of an inch,

The bam was from the door reaching full extension...

Aren't you glad I'm here to explain these things and totally harsh your mellow?

I considered getting the caulking gun and filling in the gap,,, but that meant resigning myself to spending the rest of the trip in the vanity area,,,, and I know, sooner or later she's gonna want to use the bathroom.

Very considerate of you. Allowing Smidgy to use the bathroom, I mean. Not deliberately trying to wake her by shining nova strength light into her eyes or smashing vault like doors back and forth.

I head on out to Panchitos,,, the general store to pick up the major private items I need.
(why do I have this feeling of Dejavu?)
( and they won't get it here, either)

Won't get it? You mean generally speaking?

Down to the bridge I walked,,, and slowly, across it to El Centro.

Sounds like you walked over to a South American dictator.

Si, El Centro!

No, El Centro! No!

<bang>

I did not pass a single person,,I did not pass go, but I would have taken a ride on the Reading if I had seen it,

Reading comes later... gotta finish book three, right?

but I WAS passed by everybody else,,, including the octagenarian with a prothesis on one leg,,, and missing the other one totally.

I thought octagenarians had eight legs?

I would have loved to see how she dealt with Boardwalk and Park Place.

There's a Park Place in Disney?

And really... don't you think there should be a Marvin Gardens?

But, I needn't have rushed,,,, Panchitos didn't open until 8, got 15 minutes to kill.
You see, that, right up there was a little joke,,, no, not a sligh thapper, just a little joke. Really,, I even looked it up, I googled it,,, said it's a little joke,,,ok OK,,, I'll get rid of it later,,,geesh.

Nope. Not getting that one. It could be that it's so small that it's undetectable.

I peaked into RiK's Cafe,,,,,, Oh MY GOD,,,, it's nuts in this little room,,, the line was out the corridor,,,,,for basically the bounty platter breakfast you get at all the food courts in the morning.

Here's looking at breakfast, shweetheart.

puter hates me again.

What do you mean, 'again'? Don't you mean 'still'?

They opened the steel bars for Panchitos,,, after a charades routine with a cast member who didn't speak English OR GERMAN,

Yiddish... definitely Yiddish.

,,I finally got a newspaper and slapped a buck ten down on the counter and started walking away.

"Oh sir,,,,"

Yup. Saw that one coming too!

"Youstillneedtopayus25centsmore." she blurted out.

Oh, sure. Now she speaks english...

I could feel my face turning red

Shoulda used sunscreen, fully... or foolscreen.

as I leaned over and read the price on the newspaper,,,, yep,,,,they raised it a quarter since we were last here in September.

A price hike? In Disney? How out of the norm!


Norm!!!

Nebo was an idiot!
Better yet,, Nebo was King of the Idiots!

Isn't it nice when we can both agree on something???

My stupidity reached full bloom on my face,, even the tan couldn't hide,,, and i tried to give them an extra 50 to forget the whole thing.

No chance.

No change?

This is the first day there,, I can picture the rest of the trip from now on,,,
"Hello Mr. Idiot,, need a paper today?"
"Good morning Mr. Idiot,,,don't forget,,, sun block works best if applied directly in your eyes to avoid bright yellow poisening."

Nah, they would never say that... to your face. Red face. Behind your back. Sore back. Oh, absolutely. But not right to your face. Did you notice a lot of giggling and finger pointing when you returned? No?

You're probably not as observant as you used to be.

Every morning from that point on, even if I didn't need a paper I would make a point to go in and apologize,,, even if it was somebody different,,,I'd go in and apologize anyway.

Way to increase the giggles and finger pointing. I knew you'd find a way.

Even if i didn't know them,,, I'd apologize,,, in military speak,, I believe they would call this carpet bombing.

Good analogy... or is that a metaphor... I know it's not a simile...


Good one!

"But, but, but,,,, you don't understand! My sunglasses are back in the room,,,, you know,,,, "The Dragons' Den?"

Where no mortal dare tread.

Geez, you've even got me scared to wake her!

I stood there weighing my options,,,

And how many kilotons were they?

This was a major ordeal,,,,

And a very private one. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe I should've put a colonel or even a semi-colonel between those sentences?

picture George Bailey again,, sitting there with tears rolling down his face, clutching his hands to his chin as he thinks, and thinks,, what he should do. ,,,,weighing the options,,,, possible blindness,,, Diane's Rath,,,, possible blindness,,,,,ok,,, this time we'll get it right,,, Diane's Wrath!

Wrong! Always, always go with the self imposed injury over the waking of she-who-must-not-be.

I chose the lesser of two evils..

Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.

Yeah, it's an oldie... but I absolutely had to.

I knew just where they were,,,Behind the drapes so you could see them from the outside,, but not the inside.

For the life of me, I can't see the logic in this. Is it so you have less of a chance of remembering where they are until after you leave the room in desperation? Or is it your way of saying, "Look, World. I have shades... I'm cool."

We are going to take a short break fright here

If it's a typo, oh well... but if it's not

so I can go and make myself a drink,,,I'm so nervous,,, even I don't know how this is going to turn out.

I'm guessing you had a banana and ate some popcorn while doing hand exercises, jumping jacks and leg lifts during your break?

I have no misconceptions on what will wake Her Heiniess,

MOLECULES COLLIDING IN MID AIR will wake Smidgy.
And don't even get me started about all the buzzing around the electrons make annoying the protons and neutrons.

Why are they called neutrons... shouldn't they be controns? Or maybe amateurtrons?

I have no proof yet,,, but I'm becoming more and more a fan of the theory that she can ascertain the difference in atmospheric pressure in a room when you open the door.
Tha't s the best I can explain it.

It could be that she can sense... you. Next time, pay some little kid a quarter and see if he can sneak in and out without her noticing. I'm sure Smidgy will appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Opening the door just enough to squeeze most of my body sideways inside, trying not to let in more light than necessary,, and keeping one foot still as a door jam,,or is it a preserve,,, well, it's preserve if it keeps me from becoming jelly,,,

While humming "Lady Marmalade".

AS the door flung open next to our door and 3 kids ran out screaming.
"gwababhahahgwabahahahgobble boggle DISney!gorbal hhey."

Of course! It's inevitable!

She started to say something, and I was sympathetic,,, I knew she still didn't feel well, I listened to her all night, THE LONGEST NIGHT, so I threw the Orlando Sentinel on the bed to slow her down,, and I ran like a thief!

Always good to have a plan of retreat. Run away!

the time is almost 8:30.
Celsius.
I'm always trying to keep you Canadiens in mind.

( I don't know,, you figure it out!)

Subtract 32 and divide by two... close enough. That makes it about 5:58.

See? Not so hard.

True story. Do you want to know from whom I learned to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius? Johnny Carson, on the tonight show.

and enjoyed the most blissfull 30 minutes ever spent at a Disney resort, so now I"m trying to reproduce it.

Trying to reproduce it? You don't need a drinking fountain, you need a Xerox machine.

(Notice I didn't stoop down to the obvious reproduction jokes? Shows restraint. I should get bonus points for that.)

The pills were kicking in at that time,,,, and when the tub started up, I stood back and said with my arms out to it,,,"IT's Alive!"

Thankfully, there was nobody there to see it.
Gee,, I hope there wasn't! Na,,got the place to myself,
"Mine, all mine! MBWAHAHAHAHHAAA." I yelled, after one more quick look around.

Nope. I'm calling you on this one. Oh, I believe you said all that stuff... but there's no way I'm buying an empty hot tub. Not when you want to go in it. The more you want to go and relax in a hot tub is directly proportional to the likelyhood of one (or more) kid who'll treat it like his personal water park.

As I eased my self down the stairs into the currents that I hoped would soon bring me even more relief to my back, a voice from under the rock next to the lounger where I just left my clip clops told me " It still might be another 15 minutes or so till it's totally up to max heat."

That Jimminy Cricket... you just never know where he'll turn up.

WOW,,, I am not fairing well with the native wildlife here at Coronado Springs Resort at all this morning!

Surely, you're not worried about another CM pointing at you and laughing... you must be used to it by now.

At least he didn't refer to me as King of the Idiots.
Maybe he hadn't gotten the memo yet, it's only been an hour.

True, these things take time to percolate and circulate. (Ha! Tied in your coffee machine and hot tub all in one!)

and in 5 seconds,,, I was almost naked! It just about ripped my suit right off.

What are you trying to do to me? Burn my eyes out? Oh, you want me to be more like you, I see... and you don't, so...

If you did hold onto your suit,,, then it just shot you over to the other side of the tub.

You know, I might pay to watch ping pong Nebo.

"He's slowing down! Turn the jets on higher!"

What I really needed was a harness to keep in place,,, that,,, or this to be located in a blind nudist colony.

Hmm, what a strange concept,,, a blind nudist colony.
Honest,,, never considered that before,, these things happen when typing,,, or,,, strip poker with blind people.
Sounds like an effort in futility.

Remember the MASH episode where Hawkeye was blind and made lewd remarks when one of the nurses was trying to change?

But if there was a blind nudist colony... wouldn't you have a high rate of people bumping into each other... Resulting in an even higher rate of pregnancy?

Just a thought.

And a blind person would probably do well at a strip poker match. No distractions.

Wait,,,, unless you can use Braille!
There,, I knew there had to be a silver lining,,,

There's now officially a market for a braille tatooist.

Do you get the feeling I have another eye appointment coming up?
Ten to one I'm going to be getting another shot, too.

I'll take that bet! I'll bet $50.

I took a couple pics before it got peopley out:

I like that. Oh, BTW, here's your fixed pic...

No,, I hate that it's a hard cover,,, I like being able to fold a book back

<gasp> Sacrilege!

I have to admit,,,, I don't think I've ever read a book ,,, or book series,,, where the protagonist was so unlikable,

Ah! So I'm not the only one. I think they made her more likeable in the movie.

(yes, I've seen it. DD11 wanted to see it, so DW and I decided to see it first; so we could see if it was appropriate. We decided she could see it... if she read the book first. That weekend she goes for a sleepover... and went to see the movie. )

And laura,,, I'm willing to bet that Come out tonight will blow away your Fifty Shades of Grey,,, or whatever it is,, in the sleasze department.
Ponzi,,,, opinions?

No opinion. It had so little redeeming value that I don't even remember much about it. Heck, I had to google it just to remember what it was about. Plus I doubt I'll ever read 50 Shades, so I can't compare.

not to be confused with the 4 year old who by the look on his face, considered himself to be the official pool squirter.

Well, at least he moved out of the hot tub.

This is when Smidgy got her own starring role in a sitcom with the locals.

hmmm... that sounds interesting.

Boy, I;m doomed,,, I just spent countless hours knocking off what,,, 3 actual hours from the trip? I can turn cooking a 3 minute egg into a 45 minute read.

Ha! When you get a few chapters in and haven't left the airport, give me a call.

BTW, I asked earlier if you'd seen a commercial with a rug. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwE8oONv2y0

And thanks for the chapter!

 

[pkondz]

Canadian Mountain Dew has no caffeine. Just sayin'

OT here - but seriously?! I can't wait until we visit DH's cousins in Ontario this summer. DH has a full blown addiction to Mountain Dew, I think I'll play a nasty trick on him and see how long it takes him to figure this one out.

Sorry, but Canadian Mountain Dew has caffeine in it now. Has for the past few years. It didn't before, though.

so.. you're trying to tell me you slept with your hearing aids on??? you could hear the white noise? which, byw, I put on to drown out your snoring!!!!! so there!

Oh, oh! Nebo got told!

Are you getting back at Ponzi for something?

Yeah! What'd I ever do to you?

yeah, you're 47.. and I'm 35.....

I thought you were 29?

Great pic of the pool, too bad those three people are in it!

Fixed!

 

[mmeb144]

Oh, BTW, here's your fixed pic...

Nice! Removing the peeps improved the serenity of the pic. I wish I was at the CSR pool right now.

 

[buzz1121]

Do you know it took 8 months to get that song out of my head!

Ha! Yeah, you know the sad thing is even cartoon Phineas and Ferb know that the "gettchie goo" is not to be used at an adult woman's stomach region. A baby's maybe, but a woman? Newlywed guy has a painful learning curve ahead of him.

And I love that you guys thought of Phineas and Ferb from the term. I thought a long time about what I needed to call the "gesture" and I hoped everyone might recognize the phrase and if not that one than surely the "Philsbury Dough Girl" that dates us by our ages would resonate.

[QUOTE Buzz]No woman wants the "pooch" acknowledged in any form or fashion, but most especially not with a "gettchie goo".

I dont remember this from Nebo reports, but then again, I do suffer from whatever that thing is that makes you forget things sometimes.
(honestly, I can't remember the term right now ) But I totally agree with this sentiment.

Great to have you back, Buzz, and happy you had a good trip, save for the cold. And woohoo for the upgrade! [/QUOTE]



Nebo, most fortunately, has never, at least not that he has shared with us, ever performed this gesture before. The 'incident" made me think of Nebo because he makes a habit of noticing people and I knew he would enjoy the story. Even now, I crack up thinking about it!

And Marita, I'm glad to be back. I missed you and everyone else and I'm so sorry that I missed the opportunity to meet you. Hopefully, you read my apology on Pkondz's TR and you will still drink wine with me. Next time my friend I am in the World, I hope we get to meet!

 

[buzz1121]

Oh, I'm sorry Marie! You get first credit on posting about the Phineas and Ferb phrase! You have a keen, quick eye!!

 

[jmm476]

Sorry, but Canadian Mountain Dew has caffeine in it now. Has for the past few years. It didn't before, though.

Bummer! Thanks for the heads up, or the joke would have been on me.

 

[lisalonglash]

Sorry, but Canadian Mountain Dew has caffeine in it now. Has for the past few years. It didn't before, though.

Huh. I didn't know that! I guess we needed to be more caffeinated

Subtract 32 and divide by two... close enough. That makes it about 5:58.

See? Not so hard.

Easy-peasy! LOL

True story. Do you want to know from whom I learned to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius? Johnny Carson, on the tonight show.

Yay for Johnny Carson!

 

[OhMari]

Yor new post is on page 24, not 23.
Did I ever tell you, that you get huge brownie points for links?
I had something to ask, but I forgot, because I had to scan through so many pages, for some reason, I thought I left off on page 5.

 

[nebo]

laura74 turned me onto your reports and for the past week you have been my nightly reading enjoyment..While visiting Disney this past weekend, I could not help finding myself repeating at any event or situation that arose: WWND? <What Would Nebo Do?> So, at least, in my mind, you have achieved cult status! THANK YOU!

That falls under "disquieting" I believe.
But actually,, it has proven to be a reliable strategic manuever in the past,, others that have tried the WWND, philosophy have reported great results,,, just remembver that when a decision has been arrived at, always do the OPPOSITE of what I would do and things seem to work out well then. Nice to meet you Jenny,,, or Emma,,,or Jennyenema,,,,you in Florida!

Nebo - I just (finally!) read the first book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I'm curious as to why you think Katniss is not a likeable character? I'm anxiously waiting for a friend to finish the second book so I can borrow it.

In my opinion, she gets worse as the books continue,,, but even now,,,, she is totally self centered,,,,Peeta is willing to sacrifice his life for her and she doesn't care,, she even cuts his hand up before the arena. Then she can't let him or Gale know how she feels about them, she's pretty nasty to her mom who's been through a lot too,,and it seems like the more yuou do for her,,, all you get is resentment from her. But I still loved her, just thought she could have been made nicer.

Yes



Ok. I don't know this movie, but it's awfully generous of you to take Red Buttons and let Smidgy have John Wayne.

The Longest Day had about every actor in the world in it,,teh best part was reading the credits at the end:
Wayne, Buttons,, Fonda, Mitchum, Eddie Albert,Sean Connery, Montgomery Cliff, Sal Mineo, on and on,,, even "Goldfinger" was in it, and Tony from West Side Story,, Richard Beamer.






You know she reads these reports, right?

Yeah, but she get's confused now too, on which report she's on,,,,she'll probablyy think it's Ponzi talking about her.



Smidgy I think he meant to say "sighing sweetly in her sleep like an angel."

You don't remeber Peter Pottamus, do you?

I've had this happen to me at home. I try to quietly make coffee and forget to turn off the grinder and it sounds like an air raid siren going off.

Or when you go to turn on the light over the sink, and hit the switch next to it, the garbage disposal, which of course, has a fork that fell into the drain.


So you type the whole report here rather than using Word? Is that why you don't know about word counts?

That used to be my procedure. Now I do it in steps,,, copy and paste it into an email to myself, then when I'm ready, paste it back in.





At least you're the king.

It was going to be Lord of the Idiots,,, until I realized that was George Costanza's line.

Nebo, I've implored you. Have you learned nothing?

Does it look like I have?

Are you getting back at Ponzi for something?

Are you kidding? Have you forgotten Spike? Or the Coppertone Ad?

Probably. That book is just plain stupid. I still can't get through it.

Great chapter Nebo!

Thank you, and Smidgy actually liked it too.

yeah, you're 47.. and I'm 35.....

Wait ,,, that means you were 2 when we got married?

Really, Neebs you are getting too informative. I had been wondering if they had towels at the pool or not. You let that little nugget slip!

Great pic of the pool, too bad those three people are in it!

On the towels,,, like all the mods though,,, only the feature pool has the towels,,, not the quiet ones,,, you gotta bring your own for them. Or do what we do,,, just look for the nearest maid cart and when she's in a room,,,,,

 

[nebo]

Wow.. happened to stumble across this trippie and who but all people would be authoring it? Nebo himself.. Glad to see you back. Also, happy to see you made it through day one of your trip in one piece (even though you woke "she who mustn't be disturbed".

We did our trip the week before Christmas this last time. We actually flew home on Christmas Day (it was really cool for us to be swimming in the pool outdoors on Christmas Eve). Had a great time, but the crowds were pretty bad (as everyone warned).. they built up everyday, which is why we chose to hang out by the pool on Christmas Eve.. I will say that the weather was much nicer than our last trip in December.. you remember that one, right? When some jokester moved Florida from the Southeast US to somewhere north of Santa's workshop!!!

Anyway, look forward to reading on through your trip.. one of these days i need to do the same from our trips.

Yah hey there Frank,,, great to see you, and we're thinking of chancing another Dec trip again,,,, it couldn't possibly be that cold againL? Could it? And yeah,,, been waiting for you to do your own report,,, working out great for Ponzi!

Great day in the morning Nebo!

I am finally caught up with your TR. I had to catch up on Pkondz's TR as well. I ended up splitting them up over a two night period. Thank goodness the kids are at vacation bible school during the evenings this week!

Your chapters have been hilarious as usual. I really enjoyed the "trailer trash" humor in the first chapter and it made me think of this crazy show that DS happened to watch a few times on Animal Planet while we were at WDW, called "Call of the Wildman". I hope I don't offend anyone, but seriously Nebo, check that little gem out. It won't take you but a few minutes and you will understand why your comments made me think of it.

I saaw that in the tv guide but haven't watched the show yet, and no, I am not a fan of Hillbilly Handfishing.



Nebo, I think your room video/voice over is awesome! It's so great to hear the voice of Nebo!

Yeah, right,, ranks right up there with James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman. ok,,, it just ranks.



I really need to read "The Hunger Games"! It's going in the book queue for sure. I read four books during the trip so I need to restock for the next trip.

It's great that some of the faithful from past TRs are in this TR. I'm not sure there can ever be enough characters in a Nebo TR. You have picked up some really cool, interesting people over the years, you know, and the Neboites keep growing.Growing legions of Neboites......that just might be a scary thought!

How was your appointment with the eye doctor? I was doing my best to send good thoughts your way.

The readers and contributors here are the best,, absolute Best!
Disappointed at the eye doc,,, my eye got worse, but according to him nothing drastic has changed in the retina,,, so notheing they can do aabout it, I was actually hoping to get another shot cuz then at least I know something is being done.

. Can't wait for next chapter

Hi Margy,, thanks for the comments, made me laugh but I can't quote them when in a quote of mine when I'm multiquoting and no, I don't know what I just said either.

So yeah, the trick is you and Pkondz will pretty much need to keep up with each other's TRs to fully appreciate my Disney "Nebo and Pkondz" moments. I'm doing my best to divide my attention between the two TRs, and you guys have some noticeable similarities in style and sense of humor, but there are differences as well, so I try to make sure I keep my comments unique on both TRs.

Ponzi, you know what she's babbling about?

Nebo, of course I thought of you at Ohana, how could I possibly not laugh and smile a little at the memory of your Ohana experience?

I thought of you when we finally walked into an ADR at Tony's.

I thought of you when we walked through the dimly lit "Nebo trap" that is POTC.

But most of all, I thought of you when the story below happened during an Epcot EMH. Interestingly enough, DH missed the "show", but when I told him about it, after we could stop laughing he said....."You have got to tell Nebo about it!"

So DD decided this trip that she absolutely loved IASMW and Maelstrom. We rode both of them numerous times. We happened to be in line for Maelstrom on EMH night behind a newly married couple. You know the ones, flush with the promise of new love and uniqueness, wearing the obligatory groom and bridal ears. Ah.... young love!

The line was about a ten minute wait but it was an evening "must do" for DD. I need to interject here that the groom was what you would call the quintessential geek so to speak. The young bride was just your average young woman. As they waited, she casually reached over and stroked his arm. He, great study of women that he was, proceeded to "gettchie goo" her in her stomach.

Nebo, I know that you know this, but I will go ahead and type this out. There is not a woman on the planet, other than the Philsbury Dough Girl, who wants to be "gettchie gooed" in her stomach! Seriously, the young bride had a small "pooch", what I call the portion of a woman's stomach area that "pooches" out. No woman wants the "pooch" acknowledged in any form or fashion, but most especially not with a "gettchie goo".

Oh, but the miscue didn't stop there, oh no! The bride tried two other times to stroke his arm to elicit an appropriate "newlywed" behavior like holding her hand or putting his arm around her, but Mr. No Clue never received the message and proceeded to "gettchie goo" her stomach twice more.

Man, ole Buzz here was about to die. Seriously, I wanted to help the guy out, I felt sorry for him, but it was way too hilarious. We were close to the boat, thank goodness, where I collapsed into laughter.

I kept thinking what would happen to the groom when he kept doing that over the next few weeks. Her newlywed tolerance for his geekiness won't last long and the thought of the inevitable "instruction" makes me laugh out loud.

People in general are so entertaining but I knew that you would appreciate the humor and utter misguided notions of the hapless groom!

That was so good I left most of it in it's entirety. Even the King of the Idiots knows not to Getchie Goo a woman, especially in the belly.
That is great people watching, your skillls are refined. That ranks right up there with my beloved "Jock Itch Guy." Or the guy who brought the charging morining rope drop posse to a complete standstill as he walked across the path of the mass on the way to Soarin.